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Step Right up and get your nukes!

by Tryan Hartill

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The latest version of the action plan says: “Those of us who have plans relating to the use and/or expansion of nuclear energy believe that its development will promote prosperity and global energy security, while simultaneously offering a positive contribution to the climate change challenge.”
Improving the economic competitiveness of nuclear power will “benefit all nations”, the plan argues. But nuclear expansion has to be based, it says, “on a robust regime for assuring nuclear non-proliferation and a reliable safety and security system for nuclear materials and facilities”......The leaked action plan says: “A significant step in promotion of self- sustainable nuclear power would be attained through the development of innovative nuclear power systems based on closed nuclear fuel cycles with fast neutron reactors.”

Fast neutron reactors are also know as “Fast Breeder Reactors”.

From Wiki:

It is generally agreed that the FBR poses a greater risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons than light water-moderated reactors. Water-moderated reactors must shutdown and refuel every four months or less to produce weapons grade plutonium, relatively pure Pu-239, because the level of Pu-240 in the fuel increases over time. Pu-240 undergoes spontaneous fission at a relatively high rate and is unsuitable for nuclear weapons production. An FBR can more easily produce weapons grade material, depending on its design. However, to date all known weapons programs have used far more easily built thermal reactors to produce plutonium, and there are some designs such as the SSTAR which avoid proliferation risks by both producing low amounts of plutonium at any given time from the U-238, and by producing three different isotopes of plutonium (Pu-239, Pu-240, and Pu-242) making the plutonium used infeasible for atomic bomb use. Dirty bombs would still be a possibility, although ordinary high-level radiation waste can be used for this purpose as well.

Even though the plan is to only give “trusted” countries the FBR’s, I can just imagine how much opportunity there will be to use these for other things besides power generation.

But what else do the G8 boys have up their sleeves?

The drive for nuclear power is being led by Putin, who is keen to maximise Russia’s technology expertise. He has a plan for mass producing reactors, installing them on barges and selling them around the world as “floating nuclear power plants”.

Oh course!

Jul 11, 07:15 am | Tryan Hartill
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1 On Jul 11, 08:36 am, Walter Richards wrote:

Speaking of nukes … and relating to the current N Korea situation … nobody has yet explained to me why N Korea is such a threat.

Face it, we weren’t scared of the USSR having enough ICBMs to totally wipe out our nation … because we knew we had enough to also wipe them out in a retaliatory strike. M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. The same policy should be taken against any country with WMDs.

Now, if we have enough nukes to destroy the old USSR – why not just let N Korea know we’re retargetting the ones we formerly had targetted at (say) East Germay, and some other USSR “satellite” countries? We don’t need to embargo them, bribe them, or go for a military strike. Just let them know, if they nuke somebody … they’re country will become a radioactive wasteland.

(And before you mention Iraq and WMDs, I’ve said before I didn’t give a damn if they had ‘em or not. Saddam deserved to be taken down for his genocidal ways.)

2 On Jul 11, 05:58 pm, Lee wrote:

Face it, we weren’t scared of the USSR having enough ICBMs to totally wipe out our nation … because we knew we had enough to also wipe them out in a retaliatory strike. M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. The same policy should be taken against any country with WMDs.—-

WE WALTER? WE weren’t skeered of dying cause we could kill them too?

If we were a christian theocracy and the crazies in charge of another country launched enough to totally wipe us out, the christian thing to do would be to NOT “push the button”. What would be the point anyway? We’d be dead!!! Might as well let them live. (but i did refer to them as crazy didn’t I)

3 On Jul 12, 07:27 am, Walter Richards wrote:

Not quite. We weren’t scared of them pushing the button, because we knew they knew we could (and would) kill them in retaliation.

That’s the whole point in MAD. “I might not survive your attack, but you won’t survive the counter-attack.”

A similiar principle is the “Mexican Standoff”.

Of course, a nuclear attack big enough to meaningfully disrupt our gov’t/military would cause a “nuclear winter” anyway – causing the eventual destruction of most life in the northern hemisphere.

And another thing about N Korea having nukes that could reach the West Coast … why would they? There’s really no strategic target here that would be worth the retaliatory cost to them. The nuke subs at Bremerton would be gone before the missiles arrived, and even one of those would be enough to turn N Korea into a funeral pyre.

4 On Jul 12, 07:35 am, Jim wrote:

But that’s assuming someone not “mad” on the other end. Who can tell what will happen on that end.

5 On Jul 13, 08:57 am, Lee wrote:

your website is broken

6 On Jul 13, 09:37 am, Walter Richards wrote:

^^ Oh, good. I thought he’d banned my comments, or something.

7 On Jul 13, 11:40 am, Tryan Hartill wrote:

What is broken?

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